Federal Employee Resource Center

The Supreme Court has effectively ended ninety years of independent agency protection for federal officials. In a pair of decisions issued the same day, June 29, 2026, the Court ru...

The Merit Systems Protection Board — the independent body federal employees count on when they're fired — may have made its most consequential ruling in decades after a private mee...

If it feels like the ground keeps shifting under your feet as a federal employee, the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. Slaughter is one more reason why. This case involved the ...

A proposed federal rule would shift control over nearly every federal grant away from subject-matter experts and into the hands of senior political appointees — and the public comm...

Some CDC employees are being detailed into senior roles they were never trained for — and when their performance suffers, they're facing disciplinary action. If that's your situati...

The biggest federal student loan overhaul in a generation takes effect July 1, 2026 — and for federal employees, a few critical deadlines are already days away. Whether you're purs...

A new Inspector General report on the Department of Education's rapid workforce reduction reveals something more troubling than headline job-loss numbers: staffing cuts may have el...

Federal employees nearing retirement received unusually encouraging news from OPM: retirement claims are being processed at a pace that, at least for now, is reducing a historicall...

Federal employees who carry a spouse or child on their health insurance should pay close attention to a new OPM rule expanding family member eligibility verification under the Fede...

Federal employees are being asked to absorb a commute shock that is not just inconvenient—it is financially destabilizing. Recent reports place the national average for regular gas...

For many federal employees, Memorial Day is not abstract. It may be tied to military service, colleagues who served, family members who never came home, or the quiet grief carried ...

A missed credit card payment can feel personal, even when the cause was completely outside your control. For federal employees affected by the 76-day DHS shutdown, the harm was not...